lol yes, I'm not surprised, sometimes I wish I had the hyperactivity too because my hypoactivity can be so depressing.

I, too, share in this wild wonder of the world, and wish to do the same. My problem seems to lie when I get these overwhelmed moments where my ambitions and interests seem to take the form of little gremlins. Then they chatter in my head all at the same time and I feel like I have to lay down just to understand each one. When I get a headache from trying to understand them all, I end up having to sleep, and that ends up making me sad that I couldn't do more. But I have less of that with my meds luckily.

I've always been a thinker too and I see that as a positive attribute myself. The only problems with that arise when people can't seem to connect the (widely spaced) dots that my thinking followed. But luckily, I have my mom and my little brother who try very hard to understand, and often do, or if they don't, they at least find it funny. (For example: when I was younger, I used to say "Laundry's done!" and then laugh hysterically to myself at random moments with my mom. Eventually though, she figured out that I was telling her that what was in the microwave just beeped. It hardly makes sense even writing it now lol. But in my head I thought that that weird beeping that the microwave made was just like the beeping that the washer made, especially in movies and such. I don't think anyone else ever quite understood, but I thought it was especially funny and witty lol)

Hm, I think I quite like that term Aggressive Optimist, as it describes me too. I didn't know that I was for a while, but my mind has the kind of buoyancy that pulls it up from the sea of pessimism almost immediately most of the time. Sometimes people don't understand why something does not make me upset. When actually, it really did, but I've already realized something positive out of it and gotten over it. And I don't know about you, but I tend to confuse people when that happens, especially because my emotions show *All Over* my face. I'm like an illustration in a picture-book. I've gotten in trouble with teachers for "Thinking with my face" lol, when they see it as disrespectful somehow. Oi vey.